Is My Painting Hobby a Wartime Waste?

Is My Painting Hobby a Wartime Waste? – “Am I glorifying him in this hobby? Is this hobby serving to make him look great and beautiful and valuable? Is it making me like one who values his glory above everything?”

5 Life Changing Things You Can’t Do in a Hurry

5 Life Changing Things You Can’t Do in a Hurry – “Escaping the tyranny of hurry requires an intentional cultivation of margin and the discipline to use that time wisely.”

Don’t Let Urgent Matters Keep You From Eternal Ones

Don’t Let Urgent Matters Keep You From Eternal Ones – “Urgent matters don’t have to stop the work of the kingdom; indeed, sometimes gospel opportunities are hiding inside the urgency.”

Don’t Let Urgent Matters Keep You from Eternal Ones

Don’t Let Urgent Matters Keep You from Eternal Ones – “Pray for wisdom when urgent matters arise. Look for gospel opportunities in them.”

 

Baseball and the Meaning of Life

Baseball and the Meaning of Life – “The pace of baseball ought to be the pace of our lives.” No matter what you think about changes to baseball, there are good life lessons here.

When Jesus Gives You One More Thing To Do

When Jesus Gives You One More Thing To Do – “What if you feel like your life is already full of the stuff you’re supposed to be doing and you get the sense that Jesus is adding one more thing? If you can get a sense of the hopelessness and weight that would come from such a moment, then maybe you can view the story of the rich, young ruler with fresh eyes.”

Good News for the Overwhelmed

Good News for the Overwhelmed – “I felt overwhelmed again this week. I always feel overwhelmed at the beginning of the Fall.”

Parents, Quality Time is a Function of Quantity Time

Parents, Quality Time is a Function of Quantity Time – “Quality time is a function of quantity time.”

Don’t Always Be Efficient

Don’t Always Be Efficient – “I love it when I can move swiftly through my own tasks for the day, ticking off to-do boxes with a satisfied smile. Efficiency is fantastic. Except when it isn’t.”

Take Time to Be Unproductive: How Busyness Can Waste a Life

Take Time to Be Unproductive: How Busyness Can Waste a Life – “What if God doesn’t expect us to be productive every moment? What if growing comfortable with slowness, with quiet, with not filling every moment can help reconnect us to God, others, and even with our own humanity?”

The Moments that Matter

The Moments that Matter – “We may know which images may get likes, but we don’t know what moments matter most, even though they’re humble and ordinary.”

Teach Us to Number Our Days

Teach Us to Number Our Days – “While we know exactly how many candles should go on our birthday cake (even if we prefer that no one else knew), we still tend to get the math wrong.”

Time

Time – “It strikes me, that as Christians we need to be more aware of our finitude. I suspect more of us struggle with wasting time than we are willing to admit. The internet has it’s obvious problems with pornography and online gambling, but the way that it distracts us and robs us of time without our realizing it.”

A Time to Hustle & A Time to Stroll

A Time to Hustle & A Time to Stroll – “Maybe it was the pandemic slow down, or just people getting fed up with it, but the last couple of years have seen a backlash against what has been termed ‘hustle culture.’”

Serving Others with Our Schedule

Serving Others with Our Schedule – “What if there was a better way to use our schedules for something eternally redeemable? If we find that our schedules serve only us, we must come to realize that the better alternative is to serve others with our time.”

Mind Inventory

Mind Inventory – “What if we had a ‘Mindtime’ app which sent a notification at the end of each week graphing out the various categories of thoughts which occupied our minds? What would it reveal?”

Receive the Gift of Limits

Receive the Gift of Limits – “A reality check tells us we’re finite creatures with limited energy and only 24 hours in a day. But we push against these boundaries, often doing damage to ourselves and our families as we try to have it all or squeeze it in.”

 

Holy Distractions: When God Interrupts Our Productivity

Holy Distractions: When God Interrupts Our Productivity – “As Christians, the stakes rise when we consider that what may appear at first as a simple interruption is actually an unplanned assignment from our Lord. So, how can we discern the difference?”

6 Lessons for Tending Your Time

6 Lessons for Tending Your Time – “In this new year, may our time be well-nourished and flourishing, giving glory to the One who gave us just the right amount.”

 

 

As Long as it is Called Today

As Long as it is Called Today – “The Bible does more than simply warn us against procrastinating. It also warns us about the destructive consequences that flow from it.”